The article discusses organisational changes in the Land Forces of the Polish Armed Forces’ (PAF) in the West carried out after World War II. In the introduction the author presents the Land Forces’ combat strength at the end of the war and the plans of development prepared by the Supreme Commander and the scope of their accomplishment. Then there are shown organisational structures of the main brigades, divisions and units of respective branches. The final part of the article focuses on the Polish Armed Forces’ in the West disbandment within overall demobilisation of the allied armed forces. The material is complemented with charts and organisational diagrams.
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The second part of the article is dedicated to the post-war history of the Polish Army Museum. The most important works carried out in that period were to take over and catalogue collections and also to restore the exhibits. In 1948 the following organisational units existed in the Museum: historical section of historic ordinance and uniforms, historical section of contemporary Polish Armed Forces since 1920, library and iconography section, museum cataloguing section, purchase, donations, gifts and deposits section, and administrative - economic section. Successive exhibitions and their creators have been discussed in the article. Special attention was paid to the contribution and personal engagement of the museum employees in preparing the exhibitions.
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The article describes establishing the Polish Army Museum and its activities in 1945 - 1949. After-the-war lots of the Museum have been presented: the return to work of its former employees and museum co-workers, their energetic and effective actions to restore the army central museum and to build its two branches in Malbork and Wrocław. Redecorating the building, progress in collecting exhibits and their conservation - all this enabled organising a permanent exhibition and opening the museum on 20th January 1946, on the first anniversary of capturing the left bank of Warsaw.
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